Lars Schwander

Lars Schwander (born 15 December 1957) is a Danish photographer, and gallerist. As a photographer, he is best known for his portraits of international artists. In 1996, he founded the Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, an exhibition space for art photography.

Career Lars Schwander was born in 1957. In the 1980s he was the co-editor of the magazine Sidegaden before founding his own magazine Copyright. He was part of the editorial group of Sidegaden magazine from 1982 to 1984, then a publisher and editor at Lundtofte Publishing in Denmark from 1987 to 1993. From 1989 and in the 1990s, he held a number of roles in the department of photographs at The Royal Library. Schwander was publisher and editor-in-chief of Copyright Art Magazine from 1990 to 1992. He founded the Fotografisk Center in 1996, and was director until 2011. He was curator for photography at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art from 1999 to 2004, and a board member of The Finnish Cultural Institute in Copenhagen in 2001. He founded the Institute of Photography in 2011. In 1996 Schwander established the Fotografisk Center at Gammel Strand in Copenhagen and in 2008 he opened a second photography gallery, annexone.org in Amaliegade.

Schwander has portrayed many international artists in his photography, including Björk, Leonard Cohen, Annie Leibovitz, Peter Greenaway, Roger Ballen, Günther Förg, Martin Kippenberger, Duane Michals, Helmut Newton, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman and Lawrence Weiner. His artistic work is represented in international collections such as those of Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Musée de la photographie in Belgium, the Royal Danish Library inCopenhagen, the Brandts Museum of Photographic Art, Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, the Lenono Photo Archive in New York and the extensive German Olbricht Collection in Essen.